Caesar 3 was an absolutely amazing, amazing discrete simulation game - circa 1997/1998. Another one, as good if not better, was Stronghold - a Castle simulatio

Caesar 3 was an absolutely amazing, amazing discrete simulation game - circa 1997/1998. Another one, as good if not better, was Stronghold - a Castle simulation game. What I loved about both of those games is that you would see the wheat being carefully sewn, then grown, then carefully taken up to the stock pile, people would take wheat from the stock pile and grind it up into flour, flour would then be carefully baked into bread. All of this was just a crazy assed hyper detailed element of a game in which you were trying to defend your castle from invaders. Final awesome discrete simulation game (on my iPad) was Settlers. In this case, the tool/market chain was circular. As eventually the ores and coal that you mined would be required for tools that like fishing rods that would catch fish to feed your miners, etc... Those three games Caesar 3, Settlers, and Stronghold were the three best gaming experience in the last 15 years for me. Still looking for #4. We'll see if SimCity is there, I'm certainly hoping.